https://padlet.com/cchristie/4phox82tfq7t en-us 2019-02-04 22:14:35 UTC 2025-03-14 08:28:59 UTC hello@padlet.com 1510411 https://padlet.com/cchristie/4phox82tfq7t/wish/327569785 . With the onset of the Great Depression, the 1930's were quite different for women. With fewer jobs available, employers generally preferred to employ men. 
. The growing film industry aimed at selling the idea of women's place in the home. 

]]> 2019-02-04 22:37:11 UTC https://padlet.com/cchristie/4phox82tfq7t/wish/327569785 151955 https://padlet.com/cchristie/4phox82tfq7t/wish/327569791 The decade of 1930's has been labelled as 'The Golden Age of Hollywood'. This is because the decade of 1930's and most of 1940's were known for having films with dialogue and colour.]]> 2019-02-04 22:37:13 UTC https://padlet.com/cchristie/4phox82tfq7t/wish/327569791 152416 https://padlet.com/cchristie/4phox82tfq7t/wish/327569794 The roles were mainly based on women shown as naive and helpless. ]]> 2019-02-04 22:37:13 UTC https://padlet.com/cchristie/4phox82tfq7t/wish/327569794 151254 https://padlet.com/cchristie/4phox82tfq7t/wish/327569829 The Great depression greatly affected the film industry in the 30's and almost all of the Hollywood studios  had huge financial losses, however many great films were made in the 30's such as Grand Hotel, Frankenstein, Dracula, the Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind etc]]> 2019-02-04 22:37:19 UTC https://padlet.com/cchristie/4phox82tfq7t/wish/327569829 191729 https://padlet.com/cchristie/4phox82tfq7t/wish/327569907 Hay's code was produced which was the first large scale attempt at organized censorship of Hollywood films.]]> 2019-02-04 22:37:38 UTC https://padlet.com/cchristie/4phox82tfq7t/wish/327569907 1502513 https://padlet.com/cchristie/4phox82tfq7t/wish/327569961 The 1930s decade (and most of the 1940s as well) has been nostalgically labeled "The Golden Age of Hollywood" (although most of the output of the decade was black-and-white). ]]> 2019-02-04 22:37:53 UTC https://padlet.com/cchristie/4phox82tfq7t/wish/327569961 1502513 https://padlet.com/cchristie/4phox82tfq7t/wish/327570073 The 1930s decade (and most of the 1940s as well) has been nostalgically labeled "The Golden Age of Hollywood" (although most of the output of the decade was black-and-white). ]]> 2019-02-04 22:38:18 UTC https://padlet.com/cchristie/4phox82tfq7t/wish/327570073 https://padlet.com/cchristie/4phox82tfq7t/wish/327570074 Year of revolution in sound and colour]]> 2019-02-04 22:38:18 UTC https://padlet.com/cchristie/4phox82tfq7t/wish/327570074 152416 https://padlet.com/cchristie/4phox82tfq7t/wish/327570176 Roles were based on women shown as naive and helpless and needed a man to survive. ]]> 2019-02-04 22:38:42 UTC https://padlet.com/cchristie/4phox82tfq7t/wish/327570176 1502513 https://padlet.com/cchristie/4phox82tfq7t/wish/327570218 As I pointed out in another piece, “King Kong” came out in one of the worst years of the Great Depression, and thus saved RKO from bankruptcy.   A huge box-office hit, it also helped boost the Hollywood industry.  Technically, “King Kong” launched a new era of sound and visual effects, with groundbreaking work by stop-motion master Willis O’Brien.

]]> 2019-02-04 22:38:53 UTC https://padlet.com/cchristie/4phox82tfq7t/wish/327570218 https://padlet.com/cchristie/4phox82tfq7t/wish/327570251 Full length films were produced, decade of police tail turmoil and economic problems. E.g The Great Depression, creation of hays code (organised censorship)]]> 2019-02-04 22:39:03 UTC https://padlet.com/cchristie/4phox82tfq7t/wish/327570251 https://padlet.com/cchristie/4phox82tfq7t/wish/327570350 Year of revolution in sound and colour, genre’s that were frequent included gangster films, musicals, horrors, social realism, comedies and westerns. There was alot  of political issues that fueled movies such as gender reality, and racism.]]> 2019-02-04 22:39:33 UTC https://padlet.com/cchristie/4phox82tfq7t/wish/327570350 1502513 https://padlet.com/cchristie/4phox82tfq7t/wish/327570385 In the jungle scenes, the basic scale ratio for its size was one inch to one foot.  However, the city scenes required a larger Kong that stood 24 inches tall on the same scale so as not to be dwarfed by the skyscrapers.   While Kong was a monkey-size doll, the parts of him that engaged with human actors were built on a massive scale.  These included a foot, lower leg, and giant furry paw, a crane like device about 8 feet long, in which Fay Wray writhed sexily and was lifted 10 feet over the studio floor for her big scene atop the Empire State Building.

]]> 2019-02-04 22:39:43 UTC https://padlet.com/cchristie/4phox82tfq7t/wish/327570385 https://padlet.com/cchristie/4phox82tfq7t/wish/327570388 During the depression laws were placed at that time prohibiting married woman from working.]]> 2019-02-04 22:39:44 UTC https://padlet.com/cchristie/4phox82tfq7t/wish/327570388 1521415 https://padlet.com/cchristie/4phox82tfq7t/wish/327570445 The film perpetuated racially ignorant stereotypes which reflected the mindset of the average person in White America at the time.
Island/Native people were portrayed as uncivilised savages, further adding to the fear of and oppression towards Native American people while also convinving the average American that the outside world was dangerous, a mindset which has carried over into today's modern society.]]> 2019-02-04 22:39:59 UTC https://padlet.com/cchristie/4phox82tfq7t/wish/327570445 1502513 https://padlet.com/cchristie/4phox82tfq7t/wish/327570497 At the time, state-of-the-art technology was used.  The derailed miniature sets were merged and composited with glass paintings, rear-projection backgrounds, stop-motion animation sequences, wooden puppets, and full-size actors.  By today’s standards, the film’s special effects look primitive, but “King Kong” was the first film to pioneer the basic machinery and techniques that modern filmmakers, such as Spielberg and Jackson, later refined with the help of electronics and computers.]]> 2019-02-04 22:40:14 UTC https://padlet.com/cchristie/4phox82tfq7t/wish/327570497 https://padlet.com/cchristie/4phox82tfq7t/wish/327570641 Decade of sound and colour revolutions. It was the era in which the silent period ended.]]> 2019-02-04 22:40:58 UTC https://padlet.com/cchristie/4phox82tfq7t/wish/327570641 https://padlet.com/cchristie/4phox82tfq7t/wish/327570670 In the film industry women were portrayed as helpless and vulnerable or they were sexulised as prostitutes ]]> 2019-02-04 22:41:04 UTC https://padlet.com/cchristie/4phox82tfq7t/wish/327570670 1510411 https://padlet.com/cchristie/4phox82tfq7t/wish/327570824 During the 1930's technology thrived and revolutionized the way people live today.]]> 2019-02-04 22:41:35 UTC https://padlet.com/cchristie/4phox82tfq7t/wish/327570824 1502513 https://padlet.com/cchristie/4phox82tfq7t/wish/327570896 Development of film genres such as gangster films, musicals, horror, western]]> 2019-02-04 22:41:59 UTC https://padlet.com/cchristie/4phox82tfq7t/wish/327570896 https://padlet.com/cchristie/4phox82tfq7t/wish/327570954 America opposed fascist military leaders gaining control in Germany. America didn’t want to be involved with another world war. Americans were Democrats at the time ]]> 2019-02-04 22:42:22 UTC https://padlet.com/cchristie/4phox82tfq7t/wish/327570954 151955 https://padlet.com/cchristie/4phox82tfq7t/wish/327571096 Stop motion was first used in 1897 - 1898. The technique was used in the film "The Humpty Dumpty circus" by directors J.Stuart Blackton and Albert.E Smith. The directors used their daughters dolls to act out acrobats and animals in motion.]]> 2019-02-04 22:43:12 UTC https://padlet.com/cchristie/4phox82tfq7t/wish/327571096 1502513 https://padlet.com/cchristie/4phox82tfq7t/wish/327571097 In the near four hundred years since the first Dutch settlers stepped foot on its lands, the city of New York has overcome countless struggles as a city. Among the struggles the city faced were being a key military stronghold during the American Revolutionary War, suffering numerous fires that caused mass damage to its infrastructure, rioting, and even terrorist attacks. In the 20^th century, New York, and the United States as a whole, faced one of its most tolling struggles to date: the Great Depression. The era of the Great Depression lasted from 1929 up until the late 1930’s. The Depression saw millions of Americans lose their employment, housing, and entire financial savings after a colossal crash of the New York Stock Exchange. Over the period of just one year after the crash, unemployment rates “would rise to 13 million – one quarter of the nation’s workforce.”[1]]]> 2019-02-04 22:43:12 UTC https://padlet.com/cchristie/4phox82tfq7t/wish/327571097 https://padlet.com/cchristie/4phox82tfq7t/wish/327571189 In 1917 the first feature film The Gulf between featured "colour" called Technicolor. This was refind in 1928 with the adoption of dye absorbing into the print with water creating "colour". However, the process was expensive costing 3 times as much than the cost of black and white causing it's nearly abanded in 1932. Hence King Kong did not use this process  ]]> 2019-02-04 22:43:43 UTC https://padlet.com/cchristie/4phox82tfq7t/wish/327571189 https://padlet.com/cchristie/4phox82tfq7t/wish/327571201 Kong is a metaphor for racism showing the way white Americans view black. (White lady saved from beast by white man) colonisation, (explorers from west invade skull island where inhabitants are black) King Kong was the movement of natives to overthrow colonist power when King Kong is killed it symbolises the movent is crushed. Don’t mess with nature ]]> 2019-02-04 22:43:48 UTC https://padlet.com/cchristie/4phox82tfq7t/wish/327571201 viditshiva1 https://padlet.com/cchristie/4phox82tfq7t/wish/327571432 The 1930's were dominated by the great depression while Hitler's dominance was increasing. 
The film is set in the pre civil rights era, so discrimination against coloured people was considered normal, not immorally wrong.]]> 2019-02-04 22:45:06 UTC https://padlet.com/cchristie/4phox82tfq7t/wish/327571432 1502513 https://padlet.com/cchristie/4phox82tfq7t/wish/327571782 The Vamp: This role was usually based on a sexually deviant woman. An Independent woman that would lure men to their doom and were popularly demonized.]]> 2019-02-04 22:46:46 UTC https://padlet.com/cchristie/4phox82tfq7t/wish/327571782 151254 https://padlet.com/cchristie/4phox82tfq7t/wish/327571800 King Kong was such a big hit that it was re-released in 1938 and 1952. In 1954 Godzilla and Creature from the Black Lagoon were very much inspired by King Kong with similar storylines and characters]]> 2019-02-04 22:46:52 UTC https://padlet.com/cchristie/4phox82tfq7t/wish/327571800